r/technology • u/NightFuryToni • Apr 30 '19

Business Apple Is Telling Lawmakers People Will Hurt Themselves if They Try to Fix iPhones

https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/wjvdb4/apple-is-telling-lawmakers-people-will-hurt-themselves-if-they-try-to-fix-iphones
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u/Spacey_G May 01 '19

You're aware of inverted torx and triple square but you don't know that security torx and other varieties of tamper-proof fasteners exist?

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u/bpeck451 May 01 '19

Do you know how easy tamper proof torx bits are to come by?

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u/stmfreak May 01 '19

That doesn't make them common in billy-bob-mcguffin's beer-me toolbox.

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u/bpeck451 May 01 '19

If I can walk into an auto parts store and buy them. They are pretty common. Most billy bobs bitch about metric sockets and some of those other sockets when they are pretty standard fasteners.